Was find when I went to work on the 19th of October, passed the health check. About an hour or so after I came home started feeling feverish, achy, coughing… oh, crap, thinks I. Then the crushing fatigue set in.
Got tested on Wednesday. By that time I had what the tester described as a “wicked cough” and it was clear I either had covid or flu.
Test result on Sunday - yep, covid.
I’d been home (except to take the test) since the 19th. By the time I got the test results I was starting to feel just a teeny bit better. About three days later I was definitely on the mend.
Finally cleared to leave the house this morning. So I have officially had it and gotten over it. Happy to have had a mild case, but it still was no fun.
Not a friend really, but someone I knew. He some others thought this was all blown out of proportion. Started having small gatherings at his house. 5 of them contracted it, he died of it.
I just got a positive test. I’m really glad! I had no symptoms and am already at the end of the 14 day self-isolation period, so the odds of me developing symptoms are low. My daughter has a mild cold, so if that’s connected, it’s still mild.
Given that I have multiple underlying health conditions this is a huge relief.
Now have to isolate for ten days from the test, but that’s fine. I got it and got over it!
A friend just told me he has it, and his spouse and kids too. This is somebody I pal around with, and therefore the closest person I’ve known to have it. Months ago a cousin had it, and also the guy who paved my driveway, and recovered, but they weren’t people I spent time with.
I suppose, though, that several people I know have had it and I just wasn’t aware.
Here’s hoping Ms. Napier does not get it in the remaining month before she retires. I do NOT trust her workplace. Me, I work in my basement, which seems abundantly safe.
Well, now I (finally) know someone local. Kid and mom at my children’s school tested positive this weekend, thus causing their cohort to go back to remote learning for two weeks. They are both asymptomatic (only tested because they were in contact with a case) so we are really hoping they stay that way.
It really does feel different when it’s someone I actually know in day-to-day life, and not vague numbers or friends-of-friends or even friend-who-lives-far-away.
My GF has also now been diagnosed. That’s four of the six of us. I wouldn’t be surprised if the other two had it but were asymptomatic, like I was. But private tests cost £130+ and not everyone is comfortable with pretending they have symptoms in order to get a test. For me it was a no-brainer because I was told to isolate anyway.
Interestingly, to me, anyway, of the people I know in this cluster who’ve tested positive, one of them has a flatmate, and she’s tested negative.
Coworker’s kid got tested because he was exposed at school. He came up positive as well, so the coworker got tested. So both my coworker and his son are positive, fortunately without much in the way of symptoms.
I think I’ve seen him once in the last 8 months, as most people are working from home. I used to see him daily.
A friend texted me last Tuesday saying his dad was in the ICU with covid and pneumonia. He died Sunday morning. I’ve known his dad since I was a kid, 40 years or so.
Mistermage’s BFF (the guy who hubby does stuff with every week-end) is waiting to get back his test results.
They were talking about doing some target shooting this week-end since the temps will be in the nice before Fall plunges toward Winter yuck. BFF has said if he test + or hasn’t received an all clear… he’ll stay in the house while everyone else goes plinking.
I’m amazed at his thoughtfulness because all along he’s been “if I catch it and die, well, I’ve already lived way past when I was told I would.” (He has Marfan Syndrome.) And when I’d argue back about “Fine, you die, but what about you passing it along to Mistermage who gives it to me and maybe the 2 sons who work with him?” he pooh-poohed my concerns.
My daughter and her fiancé are waiting for results. They’ve been “bubbling” with another couple who have two young children.
On Halloween, the kids went to Grandma’s house so the four grownups could hang out.
Tuesday morning, Grandma wasn’t feeling well.
Wednesday, Grandma tests positive, briefly hospitalized.
Thursday morning, friends don’t feel well, tell daughter and fiancé. Everyone gets tested.
Today, friends and one child test positive, toddler negative.
Daughter and fiancé are moving between abject boredom and fear.
Two coworkers tested positive this week. Over 10% of our faculty staff have been positive in the last month. I don’t think any of those cases likely came from school, but it’s still not comfortable.
A student (100% remote) tested positive, along with her family.
We are all petrified about Thanksgiving. So many people will spend all day in multihpusehold gatherings. Between actual COVID cases and mandatory quarrentine periods for exposure, it’s going to be bad.
Our daughter just messaged us that she tested positive and is mildly symptomatic (loss of taste/smell, some sniffles). She’s on a business trip to Utah so is stuck there quarantining for the next two weeks.
Same daughter that started 2020 with a double radical mastectomy due to breast cancer at age 31.
2020 can just fuck right off as far as I’m concerned.
Yeah, it sounds like they’re stepping up pretty well. She’s at a Residence Inn (or something like it) with a kitchenette, so she’s had a bunch of groceries delivered and is just sheltering in place.
Someone in my “bubble” tested positive yesterday. She’s a medical worker, so was getting tested regularly, so we all (5 people, it’s a small bubble) assumed everything was OK.
And she’s pregnant.
And now I’m on a 14 day lockdown after being contacted by the county contact tracers.